Communalism

CJP’s 2025 Hate Watch: leading the fight for accountability in the digital media

In 2025, CJP emerged as India’s leading voice confronting digital hate on television, spearheading sustained NBDSA interventions that challenged communal broadcasts/debate, secured corrective orders, and strengthened accountability frameworks to restrain the spread of hateful and polarising content across news media

Unnao’s Mohammad Sharif Killing: A tale of grief, injustice, and systemic bias

Sharif’s family mourns his death after an alleged assault for resisting Holi colours, but instead of justice, they face an FIR. “We lost a loved one, yet police target us,” says Minhaz, Sharif’s brother-in-law, from court, filing petitions against Uttar Pradesh Police as outrage grows over victimization and a post-mortem citing cardiac arrest

The paradox of nationalism & Indian representation abroad: S. Jaishankar’s visit to my university

A student at the University College Dublin, positions his experience of the Indian external affairs minister recent visit to the country where he studies; the author sensitively probes the worrying dichotomy of unconcern with the situation back home that the majority Indian diaspora experiences, even as India and Indians falter on the human rights indices test

136 madrasas sealed, Uttarakhand CM Dhami now orders probe into funding

Government estimates suggest the state has around 450 registered madrasas and 500 operating without recognition

“It’s not Aurangzeb’s grave, but a plot to uproot Shivaji Maharaj’s valour!”

Muslims in Maharashtra, even during Shivaji Maharaj’s time, have stayed loyal to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, and even today they still have faith in this land; the current controversy is only to re-establish Brahmical hegemony and take away from Shivaji’s unique valour

How communal unrest was stoked, misinformation & rumours ignited unrest in Nagpur

Nagpur, Maharashtra erupts in communal violence after Aurangzeb Tomb protest by VHP-Bajrang Dal which itself followed weeks of hate speeches, based on misinformation, around the issue: vehicles were torched, security forces attacked, and over 50 arrested amid heavy police deployment

Colours of Discord: How Holi is being turned into a battleground for hate and exclusion

Once a festival of unity and joy, Holi is now marred by political rhetoric and exclusionary calls. While some leaders push for harmony, the ruling establishment fuels division

Hindutva push for ‘Jhatka’ meat is a Brahminical & anti-Muslim agenda

The Maharashtra BJP government recently launched a web portal...

Hindu festivals and sectarian nationalist politics

RSS Combine’s agenda of Hindu Rashtra has been built...

Kotwa Varanasi: A viral video of Muslim minors pelting stones on street lights leads to heightened security, police deny communal motive

Tensions in Kotwa Village, Varanasi district, escalated after a viral video showed Muslim minors involved in stone-pelting street lights, while Hindu families of village expressed concerns following past incidents; ongoing Ramzan and upcoming Holi festivities redouble concerns as nine minors have been arrested

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CJP’s 2025 Hate Watch: leading the fight for accountability in the digital media

In 2025, CJP emerged as India’s leading voice confronting digital hate on television, spearheading sustained NBDSA interventions that challenged communal broadcasts/debate, secured corrective orders, and strengthened accountability frameworks to restrain the spread of hateful and polarising content across news media

The Double Stage: Caste’s Schizophrenic Modernity between Spectacle and Shadow

Caste from the pre-modern, colonial to the post-Republican; this analysis draws from, among others, works by Nicholas Dirks (2001), Anand Teltumbde (2014) and Gopal Guru (2016) to map this transition showing that contemporary caste should be best understood as a sort of social schizophrenia driven by imaginative acts whereby power perpetuates itself through a convoluted hermetic legitimising act in India.

UGC Guidelines 2026: AISA Protest at Delhi University followed by sexual abuse allegations amid police presence

Delhi university has seen persistent protest by Ambedkarite and left groups demanding implementation of the UGC Guidelines 2026 that were summarily stayed by the Supreme Court; in one such, a confrontation during a mobilisation over UGC equity regulations, AISA women leaders were subject to brute and allegedly sexualised threats, while a right-wing YouTuber filed a separate assault complaint; police have registered parallel FIRs

12 Bengali migrant workers murdered in 6 states, Maharashtra tops the crime list

Following the recently unleashed hysteria on the misnomer “Bangladeshi immigrants”, spearheaded by BJP elected officials from the Centre to States, as many as 12 Bengali migrant workers have been murdered, revealing the physical targeted harm that can flow out of systemic hate speech made by those in public authority; these are statistics compiled by the West Bengal Migrants Welfare Board; 4 of the 12 killed have been in “progressive” Maharashtra and 10 in states ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)

Against the Script of Hate: How ordinary citizens are reclaiming public space

A shop sign in Kotdwar, a shutter kept open in Nainital, a landlord’s refusal in Purola, and a Valentine’s Day standoff in Jaipur — how everyday acts of defiance are reshaping the narrative of communal tension in India